Nourriture et médecine vivantes 2010

2009 - challenging the idea of artist / curator at the same time, making literally fresh edible, off the wall of the gallery abstract art, in continuation of abstract art traditions, but addressing food and cooking issues, in the gallery, as food is free and everyone is invited to eat, including your dogs. Live action preparing food, compost, on the ground on your tablecloth, with decomposing food nearby validated, fungi, bacteria and airborn microbes are always with us - the invisible performers. (read more on blog)..... Interconnected Performers / Performers interconnectées, image of "The interconnections of people, dogs, fungi, food...performing" by Nicole Fournier, photo by Tagny Duff - feb 1st 2009, moment in performance from Nicole Fournier "painting with food, she made with public on the ground of the gallery, as a live action performance of edible abstract painting, for people and dogs to be eaten live off the wall of the gallery, made of purées of spinach, carrot, potato, onion, parsley, olive oil, garlic...repetition, repetition....

Companions and Transformations 2012

at the Wundergarden, Fluxmedia (art and science research) Concordia University, in collaboration with InTerreArt, Certex and Action Communiterre (seed donation) - Wundergarden is a hybrid gallery + living laboratory for artistic inquiry into the vegetal and the life sciences. Companions and Transformations is art as art research that combines new ways of seeing urban agriculture with rewilding and recycling of unusable used clothing from Certex (that would otherwise go to landfills), integration of wild (natural) plants that are draught resistent with cultivated naturally draught resistant crops (edible plants), no gmo that release bt toxin pesticide such as used in monoculture cornfield industrial agriculture

Decomposing-binding performance assembled paper making experimentation 2011-2012 - to be continued

Archive of the performative : ephemeral living art (don't like the word "object" (since 1996)

Title : 1996 - 2000 "Learning hair ball language, without words, in school" is about the symbol of the hairballs and using carpenter construction glue to apply them. the glued to exercise book hairballs are evidence of the furtive action of collecting and rolling stands of hair that fell from my scalp, on pillows, floor, or brushed out from my hands. Then taking this hair and rolling it between my fingers in a it's knotted interconnected hair ball and applying them to the pages of the exercise book as an alternative to writing. Situated within the idea of abjection in art and critical theory and feminist art practice - "Julia Kristeva developed the idea of the abject as that which is rejected by/disturbs social reason - the communal consensus that underpins a social order.[4] The "abject" exists accordingly somewhere between the concept of an object and the concept of the subject, representing taboo elements of the self barely separated off in a liminal space.[5]" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjection)